Monday, 15 December 2014

The longest total solar eclipse that Earth will witness in the 21st century

The longest total solar eclipse that Earth will witness in the 21st century


Visible within a narrow band snaking across Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the totality of the eclipse lasted up to six minutes and 39 seconds, a duration that will not be surpassed until 2132. At Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where the first hydrogen bomb was tested by the U.S. in 1952, the totality lasted more than five and a half minutes.

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